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List of ambassadors and high commissioners of India

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High commissioners represent India's diplomatic missions in member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and ambassadors represent diplomatic missions in other states. The head of a diplomatic mission to an international organization is called a permanent representative.

Current ambassadors and high commissioners edit

Ambassadors and high commissioners edit

Host country List Ambassador/High Commissioner Took office Websites Refs
  Afghanistan Rudendra Tandon 2022 June EOI, Kabul
  Algeria List Gaurav Ahluwalia 2020 August EOI, Algiers
  Angola List Vidhu P Nair 2024 February EOI, Angola
  Argentina
Accredited to:
 Dinesh Bhatia 2019 August EOI, Buenos Aires
  Armenia Nilakshi Saha Sinha 2023 March EOI, Yerevan
  Australia
Accredited to:
 Gopal Baglay 2024 January HCI, Canberra [1]
  Austria Shambu S Kumaran 2024 February EOI, Vienna
  Azerbaijan Sridharan Madhusudan 2023 May EOI, Baku
  Bahrain Vinod K Jacob 2023 August EOI, Bahrain
  Bangladesh List Pranay Verma 2022 September HCI, Dhaka [2]
  Belarus Alok Ranjan Jha 2021 May EOI, Minsk [3]
  Belgium Saurabh Kumar 2023 November EOI, Brussels [4]
  Bhutan List Sudhakar Dalela 2019 April EOI, Thimpu
  Botswana Bharath Kumar Kuthati 2023 July HCI, Gaborone
  Brazil Suresh Reddy 2020 September EOI, Brasilia
  Brunei Darussalam Alok Amitabh Dimri 2022 March HCI, Brunei
  Bulgaria Sanjay Rana 2021 February EOI, Sofia
  Burkina Faso Bhaskar Bhatt 2023 September EOI, Ouagadougou
  Cambodia Devyani Khobragade 2020 September EOI, Phonm Penh
  Cameroon Anindya Banerjee 2022 February HCI, Yaounde
  Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma 2022 June HCI, Ottawa [5]
  Chile Abhilasha Joshi 2024 March EOI, Santiago [6]
  China List Pradeep Kumar Rawat 2019 January EOI, Beijing
  Colombia Vanlalhuma 2022 November EOI, Bogota
  DR Congo
Accredited to:
 VACANT EOI, Kinshasa
  Congo, Republic of Madan Lal Raigar 2023 October EOI, Brazzavile
  Cote D'Ivoire
Accredited to:
 Rajesh Ranjan 2023 January EOI, Abidjaan
  Croatia Rajkumar Shrivastava 2020 June EOI, Zagreb
  Cuba T. Armstrong Changsan 2024 March EOI, Havana
  Cyprus Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 2019 November HCI, Nicosia
  Czech Republic Hemant H. Kotalwar 2020 September EOI, Prague
  Denmark Manish Prabhat 2024 April EOI, Copenhegen
  Djibouti Ramachandran Chandramouli 2021 June EOI, Djibouti
  Egypt Ajit Vinayak Gupte 2021February EOI, Cairo
  Equatorial Guinea VACANT EOI, Malabo
  Eswatini N Ram Prasad 2023 August HCI, Mbabane
  Eritrea Prakash Chand 2023 January HCI, Asmara
  Ethiopia[a] Anil Kumar Rai 2024 February EOI, Addis Ababa
  Fiji
Accredited to:
 P. S. Karthigeyan 2021 July HCI, Suva
  Finland Raveesh Kumar 2020 July EOI, Helsinki
  France
Accredited to:
 List Jawed Ashraf 2020 July EOI, Paris [7]
  Germany List Parvathaneni Harish 2021 November EOI, Berlin [8]
  Ghana Manish Gupta 2023 July HCI, Accra
  Greece List Rudrendra Tandon 2019 October EOI, Athens
  Guatemala
Accredited to:
 Manoj Kumar Mohapatra 2021 December EOI, Guatemala
  Guinea Avtar Singh 2023 January EOI, Conakry
  Guyana Amit Telang 2023 September HCI, Georgetown
  Hungary
Accredited to:
 Partha Sathpathy 2021 November EOI, Budapest
  Iceland B. Shyam 2021 July EOI, Reykjavik [9]
  Indonesia Sandeep Chakravorty 2023 August EOI, Jakarta
  Iran Rudra Gaurav Shreshth 2023 May EOI, Tehran
  Iraq Prashant Pise 2021 August EOI, Baghdad
  Ireland Akhilesh Mishra 2021 August EOI, Dublin
  Israel List Sanjeev Singla 2019 October EOI, Tel Aviv
  Italy Vani Rao 2024 April EOI, Rome
  Jamaica R. Masakui 2020 September HCI, Kingston
  Japan Sibi George 2022 September EOI, Tokyo
  Jordan Anwar Haleem 2019 August EOI, Amman
  Kazakhstan Nagendra Prasad 2023 June EOI, Astana
  Kenya List Namgya C. Khampa 2023 July HCI, Nairobi
  North Korea VACANT
  Korea Amit Kumar 2022 September EOI, Seoul
  Kuwait Adarsh Swaika 2022 October EOI, Kuwait
  Kyrgyzstan A. K. Chatterjee 2022 August EOI, Bishkek
  Lebanon Md. Noor Rahman Sheikh 2023 June EOI, Beirut
  Liberia VACANT EOI, Monrovia [10]
  Libya VACANT
  Madagascar List B Wilson Babu 2022 November EOI, Antanarivo
  Malawi S. Gopalakrishnan 2021 January HCI, Lilongwe
  Malaysia B. Nagabhushana Reddy 2021 August HCI, Kuala Lumpur
  Maldives Munu Mahawar 2021 October HCI, Male
  Mali Anjani Kumar 2019 November EOI, Bamako
  Malta Gloria Gangte 2021 February HCI, Malta
  Mauritius K. Nandini Singla 2020 October HCI, Port Louis
  Mexico Pankaj Sharma 2022 February EOI, Mexico City
  Mongolia Atul Malhari Gotsurve 2024 March EOI, Ulaanbaatar
  Morocco Rajesh Vaishnaw 2021 March EOI, Rabat
  Mozambique Robert Shetkintong 2023 November HCI, Maputo
  Myanmar Abhay Thakur 2024 April EOI, Yangon
  Namibia M Subbarayudu 2023 March HCI, Windhoek
    Nepal Naveen Srivastava 2022 May EOI, Kathmandu
  Netherlands Mrs. Reenat Sandhu 2022 February EOI, Hague
  New Zealand
Accredited to:
 Neeta Bhushan 2022 September HCI, Wellington
  Niger VACANT EOI, Niamey
  Nigeria[b]
Accredited to:
 G Balasubramaniam 2019 March HCI, Abuja
  Norway Acquino Vimal 2023 May EOI, Oslo
  Oman Amit Narang 2021 October EOI, Muscat
  Pakistan List VACANT HCI, Islamabad
  Papua New Guinea
Accredited to:
 Inbasekar Sundaramurthy 2021 June HCI, Port Moresby
  Paraguay Yogeshwar Sangwan 2022 February EOI, Asuncion
  Peru Vishwas Vidu Sapkal 2023 June EOI, Lima
  Philippines
Accredited to:
 VACANT EOI, Manila
  Poland Nagma Mohammad Mallick 2021 July EOI, Warsaw
  Portugal Manish Chauhan 2021 January EOI, Lisbon
  Qatar Vipul 2023 August EOI, Doha
  Romania List Rahul Shrivastava 2020 July EOI, Bucharest [11]
  Russia List Vinay Kumar 2024 March EOI, Moscow
  Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Khan[12] 2023 January EOI, Riyadh
  Senegal Dinkar Asthana 2022 August EOI, Dakar
  Serbia Shubhdarshini Tripathi 2023 September EOI, Belgrade
  Seychelles Kartik Pande 2022 November HCI, Victoria-Mahe
  Singapore Shilpak Ambule 2023 June HCI, Singapore
  Slovak Republic Apoorva Srivastava 2022 October EOI, Bratislava
  Slovenia Namrata S Kumar 2020 August EOI, Ljubljana
  South Africa
Accredited to:
 Prabhat Kumar 2023 August HCI, Pretoria
  Sri Lanka Santosh Jha 2023 December HCI, Colombo [13]
  Sudan VACANT EOI, Khartoum
  Suriname
Accredited to:
 Shankar Balachandran 2021 August EOI, Paramaribo
  Sweden
Accredited To:
 Tanmaya Lal 2020 December EOI, Stockholm
   Switzerland
Accredited To:
 List Mridul Kumar 2023 June EOI, Berne
  Tajikistan Rajesh Uike 2024 March EOI, Dushanbe
  Tanzania List VACANT HCI, Dar Es Salaam
  Thailand Nagesh Singh 2022 August EOI, Bangkok
  Trinidad and Tobago Pradeep Rajpurohit 2023 October HCI, Port of Spain
  Tunisia N. J. Gangte 2021 August EOI, Tunis
  Turkey Virander Paul 2022 July EOI, Ankara
  Turkmenistan Madhumita Hazarika Bhagat 2024 January EOI, Ashgabat
  Ukraine Harsh Kumar Jain 2022 April EOI, Kyiv
  United Arab Emirates List Sunjay Sudhir 2021 November EOI, Abu Dhabi
  United Kingdom List Vikram Doraiswami 2022 September HCI, London [14]
  United States List VACANT EOI, Washington, D.C.
  Uzbekistan Manish Prabhat[15] 2020 August EOI, Tashkent
  Venezuela Ashok Babu 2023 November EOI, Caracas
  Vietnam Sandeep Arya 2022 October EOI, Hanoi
  Yemen VACANT EOI, Sana'a
  Zambia Ashok Kumar 2021 June HCI, Lusaka
  Zimbabwe Vijay Khanduja 2020 November EOI, Harare

Honorary consuls edit

Host country High Commissioner / Ambassador Refs
  Albania
  Moldova		 concurrently accredited Romania with the headquarters in Bucharest.
  Antigua & Barbuda Amit Telang
  Aruba
  Barbados
  Belize Shamim Aktar
  Benin
  Bolivia T. N. Mayyas
  Central African Republic Concurrently accredited by Ambassador to DR Congo
  Chad Abhay Thakur [16]
  Comoros Abhay Kumar 28 May 2019 [c]
  Costa Rica Upendra Singh Rawat 3 December 2019 [d]
  Dominican Republic
  Estonia Radha Venkataraman 17 May 2019
  Ecuador Sanjiv Ranjan[e] 2 September 2019
  El Salvador
  Gabon Nina Tshering La [f][17]
  Gambia G. V. Srinivas 24 October 2019 [g]
  Georgia Kishan Dan Dewal[h] 11 October 2019
  Guinea (with   Cape Verde) G. V. Srinivas 23 September 2019 [i]
  Haiti
  Honduras
  Liberia Y. K. Sailas Thangal
  Lithuania
  Luxembourg
  Mauritania
  Montenegro Jaideep Mazumdar [18]
  Netherlands Antilles
  Nicaragua (with   Panama) Upendra Singh Rawat 18 October 2019 [j]
  North Macedonia
  Réunion
  Saint Kitts and Nevis Amit Telang
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Junior Bacchus
  Saint Lucia
  Sierra Leone
  Togo M. S. Padmaja 13 November 2019

Permanent representatives to international organizations edit

Host organization Location Permanent Representatives and Deputy Representatives Took office Ref.
Conference on Disarmament Geneva Shamim Aktar 11 November 2018 [19]
  Caribbean Community Georgetown, Guyana Amit Telang December 2023
  European Union[EU] Brussels Santosh Jha 17 July 2020 [20]
  United Nations New York City Ruchira Kamboj (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) 1 July 2022 [21]
Geneva Indramani Pandey October 2020 [22][23]
  UNESCO Paris Vishal V. Sharma October 2020 [24]
  World Trade Organisation Geneva Brajendra Navneet 29 June, 2021 [25]
  ASEAN Jakarta Jayant N. Khobragade 20 January 2021 [26]
  African Union[AU] Addis Ababa Robert Shetkintong March 2020
  IAEA Vienna Malina Paul Jan 2022
  • AU – Since March 2005, Indian Ambassador appointed to Ethiopia, with office in Addis Ababa, is also concurrently accredited as the Permanent Representative of India to the African Union.
  • EU – Indian Ambassador appointed to the Kingdom of Belgium, with office in Brussels, is also concurrently accredited as the Permanent Representative of India to the European Union.

Notes edit

  1. ^ Indian ambassador to Ethiopia also serves as the permanent representative of India to   African Union
  2. ^ Along with Chad
  3. ^ additional charge with Madagascar
  4. ^ additional charge with Nicaragua and Panama
  5. ^ additional charge with Colombia
  6. ^ additional charge along with Democratic Republic of the Congo
  7. ^ additional charge with Guinea and Cape Verde
  8. ^ additional charge with Armenia
  9. ^ additional charge on 22 October 2019
  10. ^ additional charge of Panama since 19 July 2019

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Manpreet Vohra appointed India's High Commissioner to Australia". The Hindu. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami appointed India's next envoy to Bangladesh". Hindustan Times. 13 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Shri Alok Ranjan Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as next Ambassador of India to Belgium". ANI News. ANI News. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Ajay Bisaria appointed India's next High Commissioner to Canada | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Shri Subrata Bhattacharjee appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Chile". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Jawed Ashraf set to be the next envoy to France". Hindustan Times. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Shri Harish Parvathaneni appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Federal Republic of Germany". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Shri B. Shyam appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Iceland". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Pradip Kumar Yadav appointed as next ambassador of India to Liberia". ANI News. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Shri Rahul Shrivastava appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Romania". www.mea.gov.in. 5 June 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020.
  12. ^ ANI (2023-01-17). "Suhel Ajaz Khan assumes charge as new Indian envoy to Saudi Arabia". ThePrint. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
  13. ^ "Gopal Baglay appointed Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. PTI. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  14. ^ "Gaitri Issar Kumar takes over as Indian high commissioner to the UK". Hindustan Times. 5 July 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  15. ^ "Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Uzbekistan". 10 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2010.
  16. ^ "Mr.Takur designated additional charge". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  17. ^ "Mr.La given the additional changes". ani. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
  18. ^ "Shri Jaideep Mazumdar has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Montenegro". www.mea.gov.in. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  19. ^ "Ambassador/PR : Ambassador Amandeep Gill". meaindia.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  20. ^ "Shri Santosh Jha appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Belgium". www.mea.gov.in. 15 June 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  21. ^ "Ruchira Kamboj appointed as India's Permanent Representative to United Nations". ThePrint. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  22. ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  23. ^ Geneva, United Nations Office of. "Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva". www.unog.ch. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  24. ^ "Shri Vishal V. Sharma has been appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the Permanent Delegation of India to UNESCO, Paris". mea.gov.in. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  25. ^ "Welcome to Permanent Mission of India in Geneva". www.pmindiaun.org. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  26. ^ "Jayant Khobragade named Indias next envoy to ASEAN secretariat". Hindustan Times. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

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